Solar eclipse of October 31, 1902

20th-century partial solar eclipse

70°48′N 100°48′E / 70.8°N 100.8°E / 70.8; 100.8Times (UTC)Greatest eclipse8:00:18ReferencesSaros151 (8 of 72)Catalog # (SE5000)9287

A partial solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Friday, October 31, 1902,^[1] with a magnitude of 0.696. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 1902

A partial solar eclipse on April 8, 1902.
A total lunar eclipse on April 22, 1902.
A partial solar eclipse on May 7, 1902.
A total lunar eclipse on October 17, 1902.
A partial solar eclipse on October 31, 1902.

Metonic

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of January 11, 1899
Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 20, 1906

Tzolkinex

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of September 18, 1895
Followed by: Solar eclipse of December 12, 1909

Half-Saros

Preceded by: Lunar eclipse of October 25, 1893
Followed by: Lunar eclipse of November 6, 1911

Tritos

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 1, 1891
Followed by: Solar eclipse of September 30, 1913

Solar Saros 151

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of October 19, 1884
Followed by: Solar eclipse of November 10, 1920

Inex

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of November 20, 1873
Followed by: Solar eclipse of October 11, 1931

Triad

Preceded by: Solar eclipse of December 30, 1815
Followed by: Solar eclipse of August 31, 1989

Solar eclipses of 1898–1902

This eclipse is a member of the 1898–1902 solar eclipse semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1898 to 1902
Ascending node		Descending node
111	December 13, 1898 Partial	116	June 8, 1899 Partial
121	December 3, 1899 Annular	126	May 28, 1900 Total
131	November 22, 1900 Annular	136	May 18, 1901 Total
141	November 11, 1901 Annular	146	May 7, 1902 Partial
151	October 31, 1902 Partial

Note: The partial solar eclipse of April 8, 1902, the annular solar eclipse of March 29, 1903 and the total solar eclipse of September 21, 1903 occur during the next lunar year set.

Saros 151

It is a part of Saros cycle 151, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 72 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 14, 1776. It contains annular eclipses from February 28, 2101, through April 23, 2191, a hybrid eclipse on May 5, 2209, and total eclipses from May 16, 2227, through July 6, 2912. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on October 1, 3056. The longest duration of totality will be 5 minutes, 41 seconds on May 22, 2840.

Series members 8-24 occur between 1901 and 2200:
8	9	10
October 31, 1902	November 10, 1920	November 21, 1938
11	12	13
December 2, 1956	December 13, 1974	December 24, 1992
14	15	16
January 4, 2011	January 14, 2029	January 26, 2047
17	18	19
February 5, 2065	February 16, 2083	February 28, 2101
20	21	22
March 11, 2119	March 21, 2137	April 2, 2155
23	24
April 12, 2173	April 23, 2191

Notes

^ "Eclipse". The Bourbon News. Paris, Kentucky. 1902-10-31. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-10-27 – via Newspapers.com.

References

Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
- Besselian elements

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